Scott747 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Take this with a grain of salt and at this point we don't know what it means. Twitter messages about an explosion at the plant and now passed along by reuters. http://twitter.com/reutersflash Explosion heard at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi plant around 0630 GMT - media Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtRosen Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Wonderful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 image 750 Rads seems very high. Source? I see nothing on their website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoMo Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Injuries being reported at nuke plant explosion. From BBC: 0755: AFP says an explosion has been heard at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant, and says Japanese TV is showing a white cloud above the plant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtRosen Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Can you provide a link other than something from imageshack as to where you obtained this from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 that fookin sucks!!!! Injuries being reported at nuke plant explosion. From BBC: 0755: AFP says an explosion has been heard at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant, and says Japanese TV is showing a white cloud above the plant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtRosen Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Injuries being reported at nuke plant explosion. From BBC: 0755: AFP says an explosion has been heard at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant, and says Japanese TV is showing a white cloud above the plant. Ok, would this be enough proof to show that containment has been breached? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Ok, would this be enough proof to show that containment has been breached? 0803: Japan's NHK TV also has that report of an explosion, which it says was "near" the Fukushima-Daiichi plant. The Tokyo Electric Power Company - which runs the plant - says some workers were injured, NHK reports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtRosen Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/12_45.html Agency: Uranium fuel may be melting at reactor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moneyman Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I'm trying to find the link. I had the real time tweets and someone posted the image on their twitter. Sucks that I can't go back on the realtime tweets and find it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott747 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 It could very well be part of the venting process. Happened over thirty minutes ago and none of the Japanese sources have picked up on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 its all over twitter now 2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I'm trying to find the link. I had the real time tweets and someone posted the image on their twitter. Sucks that I can't go back on the realtime tweets and find it again. I don't have much radiological knowledge. But from my emergency response training, I am VERY hesitant to think that map is accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoMo Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 BBC: 0810: Japanese media reports say that radioactivity has risen 20-fold outside the Fukushima-Daiichi plant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott747 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Can't verify if this is actual footage. http://www.twitvid.com/LICNU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherdavewi Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Video of the explosion Link EDIT: You beat me Scott... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moneyman Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 NHK is also showing that a wall seems to have disappeared in one of the buildings at the nuclear power plant.. Source: NHK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtRosen Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I'm reading numerous reports on Twitter that one of the buildings at the nuclear power plant is... gone. morrobayb Albert One of the four buildings at Fukushima's nuclear power plant is GONE. MangoSantiago ぼよヨぉ～ん Fukushima nuclear PowerPlant NNP 1 is now naked after the explosion. Only the frame of the structure is left. Waiting for the information. easataro Taro Karasaki NHK showing two images of Fukushima No.1 Plant: one showing a building another showing what appears to be the skeleton of a bldg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoMo Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Reuters is reporting: Outer structure of building that houses reactor at Fukushima plant appears to have blown off - NHK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 If the containment has been destroyed, then that is a huge deal. But we'd need verification of containment being destroyed. An explosion sounds like horrible news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PottercountyWXobserver Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Reuters is reporting: Outer structure of building that houses reactor at Fukushima plant appears to have blown off - NHK Wow if true, we maybe having more problems than being reported...CNN and FOX are barely reporting on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallow Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Something seems fishy about that graphic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 WOW!!! Can't verify if this is actual footage. http://www.twitvid.com/LICNU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoMo Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 From: http://live.reuters....pan_earthquake2 Tepco says explosion may have been hydrogen used to cool Fukushima plant - Kyodo; Tepco says 4 people taken to hospital after reported explosion, no word on condition - Jiji Tokyo fire department sending special nuclear rescue team to Fukushima - TV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikolai Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I thought that this was being completely overblown but looks like I may have been wrong. This situation is becoming very bad very quickly, and if that video is any indication... well, it can't be good. I hope everything turns out ok, this is extremely terrible and I feel awful for the Japanese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott747 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Tepco says explosion may have been hydrogen used to cool Fukushima plant - Kyodo; Tepco says 4 people taken to hospital after reported explosion, no word on condition - Jiji Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moneyman Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 According to Sky News the walls and roof of a nuclear power plant has collapsed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Askew Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 The graphic in pic for RAD exposure HAS to be extremely way overdone... I hope.. 500 RADS is very lethal. End of story your toast. Hard to imagine RADS that high in a full explosive situation. Can anyone offer more or should we buy the Thyrosafe tabs now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 CNN international just showed before and after pics and are very disturbing the before picture showed 4 buildings the largest on the left.. the after pics show that building on the left looks like paerts of it are GONE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott747 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Just by looking at one of the feeds I think the explosion was away from the reactors/containment areas.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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